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Botanical descriptions Ecology Distribution Literature
Habit : | Small trees up to 15 m tall. |
Trunk\bark : | Bark greyish brown, irregularly large flaky; blaze reddish. |
Branchlets : | Branchlets terete, stout, rufous pubescent when young. |
Exudates : | Latex milky white, profuse. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; petiole 0.7-1.5 cm, slightly canaliculate, pubescent when young; lamina 4-11 x 1.5-5 cm, elliptic, apex acute to obtuse, base cuneate, margin undulate and revolute, thinly coriaceous, glabrous; midrib thinly raised above;. |
Flowers : | Inflorescence axillary fascicles; flowers white, sessile. |
Fruit& seed : | Berry, obovoid; seeds one. |